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Page 162
King complimented Marsden as the best practical farmer in the colony , but was
discreetly silent about his powers to wean his charges from vice , while
Marsden's brother in Christ , the missionary Crook , believed his worldly interests
and ...
King complimented Marsden as the best practical farmer in the colony , but was
discreetly silent about his powers to wean his charges from vice , while
Marsden's brother in Christ , the missionary Crook , believed his worldly interests
and ...
Page 163
So did luck , for King had the colossal good fortune to get rid of Macarthur , not by
cunning or taking thought or superior intelligence , but by one of those singular
strokes of chance which sometimes determines the deserts of a man in human ...
So did luck , for King had the colossal good fortune to get rid of Macarthur , not by
cunning or taking thought or superior intelligence , but by one of those singular
strokes of chance which sometimes determines the deserts of a man in human ...
Page 164
Experience , King added , had convinced every man in the colony that there were
no resources which art , cunning , impudence , and a pair of basilisk eyes could
provide that Macarthur did not exploit to obtain any point he undertook.19 An ...
Experience , King added , had convinced every man in the colony that there were
no resources which art , cunning , impudence , and a pair of basilisk eyes could
provide that Macarthur did not exploit to obtain any point he undertook.19 An ...
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Contents
THE CONTRIBUTION OF THE PROTESTANTS | 21 |
THE SONS OF ENLIGHTENMENT | 42 |
THE CHOICE OF BOTANY BAY | 59 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A History of Australia, Volume 1 A History of Australia, Charles Manning Hope Clark, ISBN 0522842356, 9780522842357 |
| Author | Charles Manning Hope Clark |
| Publisher | Melbourne University Press, 1963 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 1 Aug 2019 |
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